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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Putting People First
Service design for innovative banking
Chris Brooker recently ran the Service Design for Innovative Banking workshop at the World Usability Day conference in Silesia, Poland, during which he explored...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Zombie Game That's Not Really About Zombies
My brother got me a copy of The Walking Dead, which includes all five of the episodes that were previously released separately. He said he got it for three reasons...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Your Data Telling You?
HP's Saum Mathur:"... For many data scientists, innovation is just out of reach. They might have massive data stores, rich with potential business insights, but...
From Computational Complexity
Book review column
(I am a bit behind on posting links to my book review column- this blog post is about the Third (of four) for the year 2012, and the fourth of four has alreadyhere...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Shopper Marketing Study
In Progressive Grocer: A study: " ... A study of shopper-marketing trends by Brick Meets Click found that more shoppers are using digital platforms and are willing...
From Schneier on Security
The National Cyber Security Framework Manual
This book is available as a free pdf download: The National Cyber Security Framework Manual provides detailed background information and in-depth theoretical frameworks...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming NSF/CISE CAREER Proposal Writing Workshops
The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE) announced that it will hold two one-day CAREER proposal...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facial and Tattoo Recognition
More on facial recognition, other biometrics and their use in App form by the FBI: " ... What happens when FBI agents are in the field and want to tap into the...
From Schneier on Security
Dictators Shutting Down the Internet
Excellent article: "How to Shut Down Internets." First, he describes what just happened in Syria. Then: Egypt turned off the internet by using the Border Gateway...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming With Blocks
Syntax is a royal pain in the neck for beginning programmers. It’s hard to teach both a new (programming) language and a new way of thinking and problem solving...
From Wild WebMink
CDB Not Fit For Purpose
I felt the report from the UK’s Joint Select Committee investigating the draft Communications Data Bill (CDB) needed a tl;dr summary, so wrote one in ComputerWorldUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Insight
In Retailwire, IBM/DemandTec sponsors an interesting paper: Shopper Insights: Actionable or Academic? An overview of a survey on the topic. Our innovation centers...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
How I Am Celebrating CSEdWeek
This is Computer Science Education Week (CS Ed Week) i and I have been planning for this since August. This morning, I began my celebration with an audio announcement...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cloud Augmented Reality
A correspondent from Metaio sends along this press release. About their drag and drop augmented reality creation and management software, now usable via the cloud...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MLB Contest Taps Colleges Students for Tech Ideas
For the third year, Major League Baseball (MLB) has partnered with Syracuse University’s School of Information Sciences to give students real life experience, and...
From Schneier on Security
Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication
Yet another way two-factor authentication has been bypassed: For a user to fall prey to Eurograbber, he or she must first be using a computer infected with the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Third Platform
In CIO Insight: Says that enterprise IT will embrace and move to the 'third platform' next year. This was a new term for me, but includes mobile, social, cloud...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Hadoop is and is Not
Good take by Mike Madsen. Its about parallel data processing which is very useful for doing analytics quickly with big and volatile data sets. It does not replace...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A simple trick to get things done even when you are busy
I have been overwhelmed with busy work for the last couple of weeks. Unavoidably, this has meant shorter emails, fewer follow-ups with collaborators and not as...
From Schneier on Security